Lined garment



Aug. 31, 1943. .P.'H. BAILEY- LINED GARMENT Filed Sept. 29, 194i v bepointed outin the a'ppendedclaimsg In'the d'rawlnei; g

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I Perkins Htltailey, New. York, N. Y., assignor to Talon, Inc 'acorporation of. Pennsylvania Applicationrseptember 29,1941, SerialNo.1412i'l81 ing sleeves g 1 It is anobject of this, invention "toprovide a j garment construction embodying alining' comprising a bodyportion and sleeve Portions atv, tached thereto in such-manner as toprovide de-V sirable ventilationgas well as the requisite and",desirable freedom of' movement on the part of the These and otherobjects a advantages-of. the v invention will appear from the following.descrip'+ j tiontaken in conjunction with-the aecompany in'g drawing.which forms .a part thereof," and 1:

wearer;

Fig.. 3 is-an j enlarged section takensnbstam' ftially on the'line 3-;0: Fig. 1 and showing'the construction of, the material which connectsthe body lining to-the sleeve lining. Y

Formerly, in constructing lined. garments-and -'garments"-havingremovable linings, .it was ex.-'g j i tremelydiflleult to securesuflicient freedom of 1 I. movement-between the sleeve lining andthebody liningtoprevent-.bindlngor restrlctiongof movei'nent;particularlyat the' shoulder and/or. arm pit portions of the garment. Furthermore,since ntheseportionsgof the garment are subjected to most perspiration,vthe problemiwa'scomplicated by the-difllcuity; orimpossibility,offlsecuring section taken: substantially 1 on the F 6 UNITED.STATE'SQPATENT; OFFICE- A (CL2-I-97) invention relates to garments and;in parv I V trated garmentcomprises an outer garment body. "ticular, togarments provided with linings hav- 4 islof conventional form beingformed of an sufllcient ventilation of theseportions of the gar-.

' ment. While various attempts have been :made w solve this dualproblem, they generallyre! sulted in the provision-of' complicatedconnece ---tions betweenthe; sleeve and body lining portions of thegarment: requiring a high degree of skill and much time and consequentexpensein', themaking.

. enr uwei tugno 'at'nios po l V According to: thisinvention, all of theabove disadvantages are totally'obviated by; providing Jan'jfannularconnecting; member between; the j Sleeve-and bodyjfiinine portions whichm ber;-

' is;in"effecti'an extension-entire sleeve lining. por- H tion;and'which; is1formed.of elastic, porous mategrialprovidingI'tliefleslred, deg j e of freedomib'etweenthesleevehdbody, 1in1ngpor 9 sasw i1 .t 0 a j heigse J toper'spiratiom,

, anemia other st'ringerry -,Secujred to theinner edge-portions of thefacings ll andl2'throughout the 'major part, oftheir -re'steners. v 1

To remove the lining 5 from the outer garment outer body portion 6 withattached collar por- .tion 'lv and similarsleeveportions 9 and l0. I Atthe inner sides of its front edges, the body portionli termlnatesin arighthand facing I l and lefthand facing I2. Secured to the righthandfacing- H is one'stringer ll of a slidefastener,

the omen-complementary stringer i5 being secured to the other facing l2.The stringers l4 and 15 are of conventional form, each comprisfingastringer tape provided with a row .of inter- 'locking.fastener memberswhich are coupled by 1 fmean's, of a slider on one stringer and aseparable bottom end fitting having one-part on one stringer Icomplementary part on the other length andsecured also to theintermediate part 7 of the body portiont adjacent theneck of thegarmentvis one stringer IB'of a slide fastener which-is complementarywitha stringer-l1 ex-' tendingtabout the edges of the body p'ortion20 ofthe lining 5. ,jrhe {stringer l5 carries a slider 2|" forprogressivelyengaglng and disengaging the interlocking fastener membersto close and open thefslidertfor' connecting'and disconnectthe lining=ito'the' outer garment body I. These stringers ,IG and I! are alsoprovided at one end .with top steps 22 for limiting movement of ,thesliderI-2l in i'one direction and, at the other end, with complementarypartsof a separable end fitting 23, as is conventional in separatingslide body 4,;it is merelynecessary to slide-the slider 2| closelyadjacent the separable'end fitting 23 of thegslide fastenerand separatethe'parts ofthe I separating end fitting; To replace the lining 5 in theouter garinent body l, the complementary parts of the separating endfitting 23 are recoxi'pled in known manner 'and'the slider is moved itsextreme closed position adjacent the top j-stops 22) andlthe sleevelinings or lining sleeves v llarestufled'down into the outer sleeves orsleeve; j poitio'ns send my g v sleeve liningsor lining sleeve portionsare designated 24 and'arefform ed ofjany suitable lining material; beinggenerally tubular. The up-. per-ends otthegsleeve linings 24, however,are.

not-directly;"stitched-.to the 'bodylining n. as

" 9 na ;;butjen annular mem rinterposed between the upperends of thesleeve linings 24 and the armholes 20a of the lining 5.

- Each annular member 25 is secured by arow of stitching 28 to the upperend of the sleeve lining and by a row of stitching 21 to the edges ofthe armholes 20a, as shown in Fig.2.

The annular members 25 are formed of twoway stretch, elastic, porousmesh material consisting of warp threads 30 formed of rubber or likeresilient material wrapped with fine textile thread 3|, and weft threads32 woven about the wrapped warp threads 30, as .shown in Fig. 3. Themesh of the-material is sufliciently coarse to allow free circulation ofair therethrough and, as will be readily understood, the elastic, porousmaterial ofthe annular members 25 forms a yielding elastic connectionbetween the armholes20a of the lining 5 and the sleeve linings 24thereof, whereby extreme freedom of movement between the relatively.unyielding material -of the sleeve lining 24 and the body lining 20 isafforded. v

Thus, the addition of the lining 5 tothe outer garment body 4 or garmentproper is accomplished without reduction of freedom of sleeve movementand without reduction of the ventilation adjacent the armpit portions ofthe garpairment of freedom of movement of the wearer and withoutsubjecting the garment Y to appreciable greater'perspiration when thelining is applied than when the lining is removed.

It is, of course, to be understood that the above description is merelyillustrative and in nowlse limiting and that garment linings accordingto this invention may be applied to outer garments of widely varyingforms; for instance, the outer garment might be of any, known design andprovided with conventional fastening means such as buttons andbuttonholes instead of the slide fastener l4, l5. Likewise, any othersuitable type of fastening mean may be substituted for the slidefastener I6, I'I, etc., by which the lining 5 is removably secured inthe outer garment or outer garment body 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a garment comprising a body with attached sleeves, a liningcomprising a body lining portion, sleeve lining portions, and annularconnecting members of elastic porous material connected between theupper ends of said sleeve lining portions and said body lining portion.

2. In a garment comprising a body with attached'sleeves, a liningcomprisinga body lining portion, sleeve lining portions, and annularconnecting members of two-way stretch elastic open mesh materialconnected between the upper end of said sleeve lining portions and saidbody lining portion, said connecting members providing freedom ofmovement and ventilation.

3. In a garment, an outer garment body com- 1 viding ventilation andfreedom of movement without bulk, and means for detachably connectingsaid body lining member to the outer body portion.

PERKINS H. BAILEY.

